Monday, March 9, 2015


The King in Yellow 
(Robert W. Chambers, 1895)




"Along the shore the cloud waves break, 
The twin suns sink behind the lake. 
The shadows lengthen 
In Carcosa. 

Strange is the night where black stars rise, 
And strange moons circle through 
But stranger still is 
Lost Carcosa, 

Songs that the Hyades shall sing, 
Where flap the tatters of the King, 
Must die unheard in 
Dim Carcosa. 

Song of my soul, my voice is dead, 
Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed 
Shall dry and die in 
Lost Carcosa. ''

Cassilda's Song in The King in Yellow. 
(Act 1, Scene 2) 

https://archive.org/details/kinginyellow00chamrich

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